Re: What's left for a 4.2 release?

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Petr Mikulik wrote:
>> Bugs
>> ========
>>
>> #1512210  buffer overflow using pgnuplot
>>
>> 	Sounds serious, but no one has confirmed the bug.
>> 	We never heard back from the original reporter.
> 
> Thus it should be closed.

No.  It should be left alone.  Just because we're in a hurry doesn't 
mean we can ignore all bug reports that can't handle that speed.

>> #1117724  [fit] access to resulting chisquare

>> 	Hans-Bernhard has objected to these names, but no one has
>> 	suggested anything better. Please speak up.
> 
> I prefer the proposed names FIT_*

My objection was not to the FIT_* part, but to what comes after it.

>> /* Define to enable quadtree optimization in hidden3d code. */
>> #define HIDDEN3D_QUADTREE 1

> But this is not default in ./configure.
> I never tried this option. It's nowhere written whether it is useful. If it 
> is, then let us have it on.

It's useful.  The only reason I didn't enable it by default for 4.0 was 
that it had seen very little testing by anybody but myself, since I 
implemented it.  I think it should be made the ./configure default for 4.2